Acquisition may refer to: *

Takeover In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the ''target'') by another (the ''acquirer'' or ''bidder''). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are listed on a stock exchange, in contrast to t ...

, the purchase of one company by another *

Mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization. As an aspect ...

, transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities *

Procurement Procurement is the method of discovering and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, Service (economics), services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. When a government agenc ...

, finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source *

Library acquisitions Library acquisitions is the department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials or resources. The department may select vendors, negotiate consortium pricing, arrange for standing orders, and select individual titles or ...

, department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials *

Military acquisition Military acquisition or defense acquisition is the "bureaucratic management and procurement process", dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and ...

, the process of acquiring products for national defense *

Acquiring bank An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from the card-issuing banks ...

, a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant * Acquisition (contract law), process by which the Federal Government of the U.S. acquires goods, services, and interests in real property *

Acquisition (forensic process) The digital forensic process is a recognized scientific and forensic process used in digital forensics investigations. Forensics researcher Eoghan Casey defines it as a number of steps from the original incident alert through to reporting of findin ...

, the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics * Acquisition (linguistic), process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language * Acquisition (psychology), learning * Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency * Acquisition (''Star Trek: Enterprise'')

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